Roger Waters’ worldview is a dangerous one-way street on which human rights only count when the opponent is called Israel. It is the duty of upright people to call out this moral bankruptcy. International criticism of Israel is characterized by a profound disproportionality that becomes clearly visible when comparing casualty figures and global reactions in other conflicts. While Israel is under constant, extremely sharp scrutiny for its military operations, the international community often reacts to far bloodier atrocities by authoritarian regimes with conspicuous silence or diplomatic restraint. A striking example is the situation in Iran, where the mullah regime shot tens of thousands of its own citizens during brief protest phases without this triggering a comparable outcry from the “humane world.”
The mullah regime skillfully uses the UN as a diplomatic protective shield to distract from the executions of its own youth and the oppression of women. Opposition circles sum up the paradox succinctly: The Iranian people have the “wrong enemy.” If their oppressor were Israel, the...
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